§ Mr. Alfred Morrisasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list all the public bodies for which he is responsible on which the consideration of the appointment or co-option of a person with knowledge of disability is a statutory requirement; if he will name the persons so appointed or co-opted on each body; and if he will indicate which of those persons is a person with a disability.
§ Mr. MooreThe Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee is the only such body for which I am responsible. I am required, as far as is reasonably practicable, to secure that at least half of the membership of the committee consists of persons who are disabled.558W Currently there are 20 members, of whom 11 are disabled. I do not think it appropriate to identify the members with disabilities.
The members of the Committee are:
- Sir Peter Baldwin (Chairman).
- Peter Large Joint Committee on Mobility for the Disabled.
- Joe Hennessy Disabled Drivers' Association.
- Adrian Stokes Disabled Drivers Motor Club.
- Bert Massie Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation.
- Trevor Meadows National Advisory Unit for Community Transport.
- Sally Greengross Age Concern.
- James Ross MENCAP.
- James Elder-Woodward Strathclyde Regional Council.
- Clive Davis Royal National Institute for the Deaf.
- Jill Allen National Federation of the Blind.
- Bob Ley South Wales Transport (retired).
- Bill Buchanan British Railways Board.
- Claudia Flanders Transport and Disability Consultant.
- Robert Taylor Birmingham Airport Ltd.
- Leslie Stephenson Townsend Thoresen.
- Cliff Twort Transport and General Workers Union.
- John Dobinson Access Committee for England.
- John Hannam MP All Party Disablement Group.
- Allan Beard Access to the Skies Committee.
- Keith Brown London Regional Transport.